Tire-bolt wrench.



N0 786,660. PATENTED APR. 4, 1905. J. R, MOORE.

TIRE BGLT WRENCH. APPLICATION FILED DEC. 12, 1904.

Witnesses Inventor WWW Fattomegs UNITED STATES Patented April 4, 1905.

JAMES R. MOORE, OF HARPER, TEXAS.

TIRE-BOLT WRENCH.

SPECIFICATIOI forming part of Letters Eatent No. 786,660, dated April 4,1905.

Application filed December 12, 1904:. Serial No. 236,628.

To (1/7/71 whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, James R. Mooan, a citizen of the United States,residing at Harper, in the county of Gillespie and State of Texas, haveinvented a new and useful Tire-Bolt .Wrench, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to implements employed for holding bolts androtating the nuts upon the same, and is applicable more particularly forattaching the holding-bolts to vehicle-tires, and has for its object tosimplify and improve the construction and increase the eiiiciency ofdevices of this character.

With these and other objects in view, Which will appear as the nature ofthe invention is better understood, the same consists in certain novelfeatures of construction, as hereinafter fully described and claimed. 1In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, andin which corresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters,is illustrated the preferred form of embodiment of the invention capableof carrying the same into practical operation, it being understood thatthe invention is not necessarily limited thereto, as various changes inthe shape, proportions, and general assemblage of the parts may beresorted to without departing from the principle of the invention orsacrificing any of its advantages.

In the drawings thus employed, Figure 1 is a side elevation partially insection, and Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional elevation of the improveddevice applied. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a portion of thenut-holding member, and Fig. 4 is a similar view of a portion of one ofthe adjustable stop members.

The improved device comprises a supportng-frame 10, having a transverseaperture 11 and supporting spaced shafts 12 13 for rotaion, the shaftsextending through the aperure and carrying intermeshing gears 14. 15,perating within the aperture; At one end he shaft 12 is provided with asocket 16, constituting a wrench for receiving the nut (rep esented at17) of the tire-bolt 18, the head 9 of the bolt hearing within thecountersunk perture in the tire (represented at 20) and he nut bearingagainst the inner face of the felly (indicated at 21) of the usual"form. The frame 10 is also provided with two standards 22 23, the shaft13 extending through the standard 23 and provided with an operatingcrank24 for rotating the shaft, and thus in turn rotating the nut-engagingmember 12, and. the standard 22 carrying a lever 25 for bearing upon thehead 19 of the bolt 18, and thus holding it stationary while the nut isbeing screwed thereon.

Attached, as by clamp-screws 26, to the frame 10 and extendingtransversely thereof is a bar 27, having threaded apertures 28 29 at theends to receive the threaded ends 30 31 of two rods 32 33, the free endsof the rods forked, as at at 35, for bearing against the adjacent faceof the folly 21. By this means it is obvious that the frame 10 will befirmly supported relative to the felly 21 and held in position andprevented from all lateral or rotative movement, while at the same timeall the necessary movements of the crank 2i and lever 25 are free to bemade.

The stop members 82 33 may be readily adjusted, by means of their tleaded ends, to adapt the device to different sizes and forms of tires. 1

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is-- 1. In a deviceof the class described, a frame, a wrench-carrying shaft journaled insaid frame, a counter-shaft geared with the wrenchcarrying shaft andhaving an operating crank, a lever fulcrumed upon an upright extendingfrom the frame and having a bolt-head-engaging point, a cross-barsecured to the under side of the frame and provided near its extremitieswith threaded apertures, and rimengaging stop members having threadedends adjustably engaging said apertures.

2. A frame having a transverse slot and provided with upwardly-extendingbrackets, a pair of shafts journaled in said frame and ex tendingthrough the slot parallel to each other, one of said shafts having anadditional bearing in one of the upwardly-extending brackets and. theother shaft carrying a nut-engaging wrench member, intermcshing pinionssecured upon said shafts within the transverse slot, a lever fulcrurnedupon one of the up m meeee mdIy-extending brackets and having a boltmyown I have hereto afixed my signature in heed-engaging point, across-bar seemed to the presence of two Witnesses. 3116 under .s icileof tel 1e heme and prox ided near JAMES R. MOORE. lbs extremltles wlththreaded apertures, and

5 rim-engaging stop members having threaded Witnesses:

ends adjustebly engaging said apertures. H. W. BIERSOHWALE,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as R. L. HILLMAN.

